Censored Tibet photos, videos, online
p2pnet news | Freedom:- A hot item on Digg right now is the Wikileaks release of censored photos and videos of the Tibet uprising.
These went online last month when Wikileaks, “called on bloggers around the world to help drive the footage through the Chinese internet censorship regime – the so called ‘Great Firewall of China’.”
p2pnet ran a couple of photos (here’s one example) originally published by the Tibet Centre for Human Rights and Democracy with a warning the images were ‘extremely disturbing‘.
Wikileaks published a much more explicit collection, together with an HTML index page, as well as videos, “so they may be easily copied, placed on websites, cd’s, emailed across the internet as attachments and uploaded to peer to peer networks”.
The photos are in a10 Mb zip for download, and we’ve also stored them here.
The pic on the right is from the zip.
“The first ingredient of civil society is the people’s right to know, because without such understanding no human being can meaningfully choose to support anything, let alone a political party,” says Wikileaks. going on:
“Knowledge is the driver of every political process, every constitution, every law and every regulation. The communication of knowledge is without salient analogue. It is living, unique and demands its rightful place at the summit of society. Since knowledge is the creator and regulator of all law, its position beyond law commands due respect.
“James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and other Enlightenment framers of the US Bill of Rights understood this well when they began the First Amendment’s constitutional protections of speech and of the press with ‘Congress shall make no law….’.
“As knowledge flows across the world it is time to sum great freedoms of every nation and not subtract or divide them. Let us then unite in common purpose for the surest way to protect the freedoms of any nation is to protect the freedoms of every nation.”
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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April 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
It’s not like pictures of China human rights abuses are hard to find. There are hundreds if not thousands of pictures of dead and scarred Falun Dafu followers.
April 15th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Yesterday in Washington the dali llama visited and there were a surprising number of pro china demonstrators shown on the local news. Some of the weirdest things being said were that everything going on in tibet was a lie, that the dali llama was encouraging violence, and plain making him out to be an asian osama binladen. I’m not a budist, nor do I consider the dali llama to be a holy man, but I do consider him to be a nice guy trying to do what he can for human rights.